EXTREME in a Sentence

Learn EXTREME from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
314 example sentences for EXTREME, such as:
1. The heat in the desert was extreme.
2. He lives at the extreme edge of the forest.
3. She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.
4. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
5. His arguments are simplistic to an extreme degree.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXTREME
extreme
 a.  beyond a norm in views or actions
 a.  of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  She fainted, and was restored with extreme difficulty.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  Exhaustion succeeded to the extreme fatigue both of body and of mind which I had endured.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  I rushed from my hiding-place and with extreme labour, from the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
10  As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
12  These were my first reflections, but I soon learned that Mr. Kirwin had shown me extreme kindness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
13  I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
14  The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
15  As I passed him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  The girls were afraid of snakes and picked their way along with extreme caution.
2  We are working under extreme pressure at the moment.
3  Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger.
4  A more extreme version would be to compare and explain budget and actuals only for an organization as a whole.
5  His arguments are simplistic to an extreme degree.
6  She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.
7  He lives at the extreme edge of the forest.
8  Because of the extreme cold, the Antarctic is a uniquely fragile environment.
9  Ministers have shown extreme reluctance to explain their position to the media.
10  Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
11  My dad's in the front row, on the extreme left of the picture.
12  Any growth in unemployment is self-evidently a matter of extreme seriousness.
13  The heat in the desert was extreme.
14  After three weeks she had got used to the extreme heat.
15  It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme.